DREAM LOVER by Kimberley Reeves Read Free Book Online Page B

the truth, Rachel.  I’ve dreamed about you almost every night for the past year.  I’ve held you in my arms, kissed you, made love to you.”
     
    “That’s impossible,” she said in a strangled whisper.
     
    “As impossible as the kiss we shared last night?  There’s nothing on the video, yet we both know it happened.”
     
    “But…we’ve never met before.  Maybe the woman in your dreams just looks like me or maybe you saw me somewhere and just…”
     
    “No,” he denied vehemently, “it’s you.  Trust me, Rachel, the last thing I want to do is frighten you off, but I had to tell you.  For reasons I can’t even begin to understand, you and I share a connection to someone or something and I honestly believe the nightmares you’re having will continue to haunt you until we figure it out.”
     
    “How can we figure it out when we don’t even have a clue where to begin?  And since you have no way of proving it’s me you’ve been dreaming about, how do I know it has anything at all to do with me and not some other woman who just looks like me?”
     
    Nic’s arms dropped to his sides.  “You’re right.  I can’t even prove to
myself
that it’s you.”
     
    He looked so defeated, Rachel couldn’t help wanting to comfort him.  “You don’t have any doubt though, do you?”
     
    “None at all.”
     
    “Then I guess the mystery we have to solve is, why me?”
     
    “We?”
     
    “I think you’re right about there being a connection between us.  Too many things have contrived to bring us together for it to be merely coincidence.  Unless…” her brows drew together as an unsettling thought began to form.
     
    “Unless what?”
     
    “Unless it’s my sister Monica you’ve been dreaming about.  She’s the one who set the appointment with you, and we look a lot alike so it’s not unreasonable to think…”
     
    “Rachel,” he cut her off, “it’s not Monica.”
     
    “You don’t know that,” she insisted.
     
    Nic replied by slipping his arms around her waist and pulling her firmly against his body.  Her lips parted but she didn’t say anything, nor did she offer any protest when he lowered his head and kissed her.  A soft electrical current vibrated through his veins, just as it had last night when he’d kissed her, just as it always did when he kissed her in his dreams.  Rachel’s arms curled around his back, the gesture as familiar to him as the taste of her mouth and the feel of her sensuous curves as she pressed herself closer.  When he finally drew his head back, she looked up at him with eyes that were as dazed as the expression on her beautiful face.
     
    “Now do you believe me or do you need more convincing?”
     
    Rachel started to say she believed him, and she might have done it if her eyes hadn’t been drawn to his irresistible mouth.  “I don’t think I’m entirely convinced yet,” she said with a husk in her voice.  “Maybe if you just…”
     
    Rachel’s heart jack hammered in her chest when Nic’s mouth came down hard and hungry, the scorching heat of it blazing a trail through her body like a wildfire burning out of control.  She should have been ashamed of herself, standing in the middle of a public park and kissing a man she barely knew but it felt too good, too
right
, so she simply gave into it.  To his credit, Nic was extremely thorough in his attempt to convince her and if she hadn’t believed him before, she certainly would have by the time he gave up possession of her mouth.
     
    “Now that we have that settled,” Nic brushed one last kiss to her lips, “maybe we should gather what little information we have and start piecing this puzzle together.”
     
    Butterflies fluttered in her stomach when Nic took her hand as they walked back across the park.  “Where do we begin?”
     
    “We could view the video but I’m not sure we’d find much.  I also think it would be a good idea for both of us to write down